1904The Southerners, with a score by black composer Will Marion Cook, is the first time an entire black chorus is used in a show with a white cast. Lead Eddie Leonard appears in blackface in the musical about the antebellum South. The New York Times is more impressed by the fact the white members of the cast "mingled" with the black performers and that only some audience members trembled in their seats during the curtain call, than the production itself.

1932Lady Augusta Gregory dies in Galway, Ireland. She was an ardent supporter of the Irish Dramatic Movement and wrote several plays for the Abbey Theatre, which she helped found. She co-authored with W. B. Yeats, The Pot of Broth and Cathleen ni Houlihan. Her translation of Molière's plays is titled The Kiltartan Moliere. She was 80 years old.

1946 A father tries to clear his son's name in Terrence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy. There are 476 performances at London's Lyric Theatre.

2001 Talent lives on: Five years after Rent composer Jonathan Larson died, his obscure early 1990s musical tick...tick...BOOM! gets a major Off-Broadway revival, with previews starting today. It is later recorded and embarks on a national tour.